>
> On Jan 29, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
>> on 29/01/05 19:44, Zoltan Batiz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Well, it looks like my roommates iBook has officially died. Unless
>>> anyone here knows what happened to it. Now it won't boot all way. It
>>> will get to just before the login window comes up, then the screen
>>> goes
>>> to black, with white text saying, Darwin BSD: loginwindow failed to
>>> execute. Does the Mac now have a "Black Screen of Death" reminiscent
>>> of the old PC days of the "Blue Screen of Death?"
>>>
>>>
>>> For those who want to help, this is from the original thread titled,
>>> "Strange sounds of the iBook. . ."
>>>
>>> iBook info: 600 MHZ G3, dual USB 14" (Son of Pismo)
>>>
>>> Thanks for any info,
>>>
>>> Zoltan
>>> THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER
>>>
>>
>> Corrupted installation, I guess. Have you tried to boot from the OS X
>> install CD?
>>
>> -Laurent.
>>
> Not yet. . .sometimes the CD-ROM won't work at all. Not sure what is
> going on, but there are times when the CD-ROM drive doesn't do
> anything, not even when it booted fine. There's a slight pause when OS
> X boots, when it looks for all connected drives, internal or otherwise.
> When this normal pause occurred on the iBook, the drive did nothing.
> After it booted, when you press eject on the keyboard, nothing. I'll
> try to boot it up with the CD-ROM, as sometimes the drive works. If it
> doesn't, I guess there's the Target Disk Mode option with my Pismo.
> Thanks for your input Laurent.
>
>
> Z
>
Try rebooting and running "fsck". Repeat until fsck reports no errors.
Details can be found at:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214>
John
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